Improvement in dust-brushes



A. SHELUNG.

Patented March 12, 187'2.v l

"|Imp1r`ovemnt in `Dus/r Brushes.

ATENT OFFICE.

IMPROVEMENT IN DUST-BRUSHES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 124,634, dated March12, 1872.

To all'whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, AUeUsrUs ScnnLLiNe, of Erie, county of Erie, Stateof Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement inDusting-Brushes, of which the following is coaches, and for othersimilar purposes, with,

as yet, but indifferent success, owing to the difticultyin findingmaterial havin ga sufficient degree of strength to insure durability,and of elasticity to retain its shape, and which is at the same timecheap enough to warrant i-ts employment for this purpose; all of theabove conditions being required to be met in any brush which can beadvantageously manufactured and sold.

In order to meet the above-recited requirements, I have made thisinvention, which consists in producing, as a new article of manufacture,a horse-hair duster, which I will now proceed to describe.

In the drawing, Arepresents the head, formed of wood in cylindricalform, and usually made in one piece with the handle A. brush-block. Itis provided with a number of perforations, b, arranged generally incircular lines, which are concentric with its circumference. These holesare bored at right angles to the face of the block, but inclineoutwardly in order to give the desired conforma-tion to B is the' thebody of the brush, as will be readily seen from the drawing. The hair isdrawn into the holes b, and firmly secured therein by means of a wire orwires, bf, so that there is little or no possibility of its escape; andin addition to the wires I usually employ pitch, or its equivalent, tostill further secure the hair. The block is fastened to the head.

I have found by continued use that, in addition to greater durability,ahorse-hair duster is superior toa featherlduster, because it retainsthe same ineness of texture until it is entirely worn out; whereas, whenfeathers are employed the vanes will, of course, wear off first, leavingthe bare quills, and soon rendering the duster practically worthless.

I am aware that Tampico sea-grass and siln ilar materials have been usedfor dusters, but, owing to a lack of elasticity to this class of ber,dusters made from it soon lose their shape land become spread andstraggled to such an extent as to render them practically inoperative.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

As a new articlevof manufacture, the hereindescribed dust-brush,composed of hair drawn in and afiixcd to the perforated head B by meansof wire or other strong and suitable material, and attached to thehandle A A', the Whole made in the form of a feather-duster, asdescribed and shown.

IVitnesses:

RD. A. HYDE, H. H. DOUBLEDAY.

A. scHnLLiNG.

